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H ey I'm Alex from Fixit, and today I'm gonna show you how to replace a battery
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on your Apple watch series 2. For this repair you'll need an iOpener,
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a curved razor blade, tweezers, a Y000 screwdriver, some opening picks and an
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opening tool. I also recommend getting a force touch
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gasket. It's inexpensive and it's real easy to break. So it's good to have it on
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hand, and remember when it's time to do your repair make sure to follow the step
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by step guide on ifixit.com. We're gonna start this repair by
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removing these two bands, so we have better access to the watch itself.
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To release the band press the band release button and slide it out of its groove.
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Now that we have the band's off we get our first real job, which is to loosen
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the adhesive so we can take the display off. This adhesive is really tenacious to
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help with the waterproofing, so it usually takes quite a bit of heat but we
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don't want to burn the LCD. So we're using our iOpener to get it to about
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a hundred and sixty degrees Fahrenheit and then we're gonna try to open it with
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our curved razor blade, so that we don't damage the metal very much. When I'm
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opening the Apple watch I always want to make sure I'm coming in at the safest
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possible side. For the Series 2 that's gonna be the side across from the
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digital crown. That's because the display cables come in from the bottom of the
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display, and the crown also holds a little bit of the antenna. So I'm gonna
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stay as far away from those components as I can and open from the other side.
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You'll notice that I use a metal tool which some people prefer not to use so
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that's to not scratch the watch but as this a watch has never been opened it's
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a little bit harder for me to get in. Now that we have this watch open we're gonna
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switch away from the sharp blade and then we're gonna switch to the pic so
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that we minimize our chance of cutting the gasket. We really don't be lifting
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any of the black gasket or cutting through and exposing any of the copper.
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I'm gonna be moving my pic all the way around the display being sure to cut all
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the adhesive without disconnecting the cables. Alright, so now that we have the
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display completely off of the adhesive, we need to disconnect the display.
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The first step to doing that is removing this black adhesive that's covering all
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of our connections. With the adhesive out of the way we now see our three ZIF
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connectors that we're going to open and then remove the display.
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So now that we have the display off the thing we want to make sure is that we
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didn't damage our gasket the things to look out for as seen here are exposed
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copper or cut all the way through exposing the casing underneath. So in
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this watch we're probably gonna have to replace our gasket. The first thing we're
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gonna have to do is take this bracket off which is held in with this tiny
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little tri wing - so we're gonna get our driver in there and remove this screw.
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With the screw gone, we can get these tweezers in there and remove this
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bracket exposing our first set of connections.
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so our first connector that we're removing is this battery connection, and due
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to tight tolerances and because these pointed tweezers are ESD safe I'm going
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to go ahead and use these instead of a plastic pick. With that connection out of
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the way, we can lift this board that's connected to the battery, and now we can
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see further connections deeper down including the force touch gasket.
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Now that the gasket is disconnected we have to get it off of our casing. So I'm
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going to use this pick and slide it under our connections and wiggle it down
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making sure to get underneath the adhesive. Once I have it started, since it
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stays as one unit, I'm just going to use these blunt tweezers to lift it off of
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the casing. Before putting your new gasket on it really pays off to clean
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this surface as much as possible. So I'm going to use this q-tip and a little bit
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of alcohol to make sure that all that adhesive is off of the case. Now that
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your case is ready for reapplication, we're gonna take our new gasket and just
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remove the rear adhesive cover. We're going to reapply this really carefully
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making sure you're getting into all the edges and seating it as best as we can.
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This is really important to make sure that our 3d touch and just our touch
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work once the screens back on. To get the battery out we're gonna get our opening
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tool around the battery. We're also gonna make sure that we're not on any of the
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display cables because they rip really easily. The adhesive behind the battery
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keeps it in place, but it's not very strong and it's more gooey than adhesive.
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All that's left now is to reassemble your Apple watch!
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I recommend reconnecting your new display and making sure that display and
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touch work before actually removing the top adhesive and sealing it down.
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Well, that's it for this repair make sure you subscribe to our channel to keep up to
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date with all the latest iFixit teardowns and repair videos and I'll see you next time.